COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTIONFresh Hop IRA
Mother Nature is a wonder. Each year she decrees what her bounty will bring, regardless of what we think it should be. Thusly, Sodbuster Farms in Salem brought us two varieties of fresh hops; Perle, and Sterling. The consortium of these hops provides the Killer Red with aromas of blood orange, pineapple, and forest. A healthy malt bill balances the top end and lends candied fruit, biscuit, and caramel character to the tongue. When life hands you hops, make fresh hop beer!.

Pour is a murky brown with a large tan head. Aroma is full of piney hop resin and some caramel malt. Flavor is more of a dank hop with a large sweet malt with some notes of molasses and sugar covered berries. This was more of a strong ale than IPA. Still this was quite tasty with a sweet but not overly heavy malt and the hop are there lingering in the backround.

Draught at Rogue Kitchen & Wetbar (W. Broadway), Vancouver, 10 ozHazy amber color with small head. The aroma is malty, biscuity, mellow, fresh, fruity: sweet oranges, plums, hint of tropical (7.5). Lean mouthfeel; the malt flavor has a mild caramel accent, light residual sweetness, the bitterness is well controlled, there is plenty of orange flavor, but a bit of paper too in the final.The fruitiness in this beer is original and under the spotlight. Excellent.

On tap. Pours golden yellow with a thin head and some lacing. Nose is big grassy floral, fresh hops and pine, delicious. Taste mostly delivers on the nose, hops, pine, citrus notes. Very dry and clean. Not sure why it’s a red, it’s a great IPA to me.

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